Admission:
Event: $10.00 | Members & Children: Free
Event & Dinner*: $41.95
*Extend your time with us and enjoy a meal in our historic, lakeside Dining Hall. Click below to register for this event and see the option to buy a ticket “with Meal.” Advance registration is required to add a meal as space is limited and subject to availability.
Book signing and presentation by Staff Historian Connor Williams.
A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases by Connor Williams and Ty Seidule recounts the story of the bipartisan Naming Commission, which was tasked with renaming nine U.S. military bases previously named for Confederate soldiers. The book details the commission's process of selecting ten new names, highlighting the lives of these diverse American heroes, and contrasts them with the Confederate figures they replaced, offering a powerful narrative on reclaiming American history and honoring true service.
Connor Williams - Sagamore Historian
Connor Williams is a 19th Century Historian, trained at Middlebury College (B.A), Dartmouth College (M.A.), and Yale University (Ph.D, soon forthcoming).
A native New Yorker and aspiring maritime mountaineer, Connor currently lives with his family along Lake Champlain in the Adirondack Park. He serves as the Historian for Great Camp Sagamore, where he directs all history programming for several thousand visitors each summer. Most broadly, and via a variety of formats, Connor uses this role to conceive and execute innovative ways to teach environmental history, Gilded Age history, and the history of class, capitalism and inequality to diverse public history audiences.
His quest to summit the 46 ADK High Peaks ...continues.
